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> How would you, as a tenant, present that option in a way that doesn’t just sound like blackmail?

If you don't want to sound like you're blackmailing [0] someone, don't blackmail them? Walking away is a real option for the tenant here.

But you can still be polite about the whole thing. You can blackmail someone and still have everyone be friends afterwards. Just make it clear it isn't personal, you like the landlord as a person, think they're fantastic [1], and that they're going to have to give you money for you to go away because the vicissitudes of fate have placed them over a barrel. They get karmic points and a good story for their next cocktail party.

[0] I was surprised to learn that blackmail might indeed be the correct word. I thought it would be technically wrong but it seems to work. I'd use extortion if I wasn't prompted though.

[1] Lie if required.
> it is the factor that is least amenable to any sort of meaningful change.

I disagree. You can create systems and cultures that encourage most people to be decent or most people to be indecent.

There will always be some indecent folks and you always need to be able to deal with that, of course. The question is-- will that be the exception or the usual course of business?
Pretty insane of you to not understand how good modern military satellites are.
The U.S. security apparatus surveils foreigners. If a foreigner communicates with a U.S. citizen, and that foreigner is being monitored, the citizen's communications with that foreigner will be picked up. It has to be this way; otherwise, bad guys could communicate securely simply by calling or emailing a U.S. citizen. Those secure channels should not be allowed to exist.
And a domestic government approved mapping service will tell you what’s going on inside a building? Why are you moving the goal posts?
A lot of students prefer to live off campus.

Also, this would just make the school the landlord. And a landlord that is renting to a "company man" as it were... because if you cause a problem, you can lose both your job (school) and housing at the same time.
>SDFs are great though, if your renderer is SDF-based, too (most are not).

Thanks for reminding me that one of the best SDF renderers in the industry is stuck behind Sony, deemed a failure because Sony didn't want to publish it to PC (where all the dev scene is).
I paste shit code into the openai playground and ask for it to be improved and ask for the reasoning why. Generally works.
STaaS: Septic Tank as a Service.
How Anarchy Works
Kept looking for GL’s outlier dot in the super robot section, then figured the just left it out so as to not bastardize the results.

For anyone OOTL, the show features robots at an intergalactic scale, such that the crew needs to invent FTL communications and travel just to communicate and move within the ship proper.
I don't type properly (use about half my fingers) but I find 80wpm is usually fast enough.
"genie granting 3 wishes gone wrong" is making a come back
Would two cities debating about whether humans are conscious be able to understand that we humans ask the same questions about our cells?
I thought Starlinks are below geostationary orbit, so I assume any debris should burn sooner or later.
To be conscious and to be self-conscious (sentient) are different things.
This has some analogies to how I interact with management as an architect… and with devs ducks
Tried this in Chrome under Windows, it does work but does not seem to use the RTX4060, only the integrated Iris Xe.
Is this a bug or intentional?
I am not disputing this, I am just saying that leaving the argument implicit might be confusing.
This seems obvious to me and I don't understand how one can think otherwise.
I’m curious, are there any AI assistants yet that can help me ID bikes, motorcycles and busses when the bot-detector decides to challenge me 10 times in a row?
Much faster yet than stable pytorch 2.3 (46% on A100, as per the tweet), and much much faster yet compared to pytorch 2.2, which was the stable version a couple weeks ago. Also llm.c is much faster yet when the performance comparison is on H100 instead of A100, or on multiple GPU instead of a single one.
Welp never mind. I welcome our new AI overlords.
re-read the post.
> CW took two to three minutes to return.

Hmmm, wonder if there's cheaply sourced labour of the human variety in that loop then?
I whine a lot and I'm on ADHD meds.

*Orbis non sufficit*
The listing says $0.99. The description says "And it’s completely free!"
I bet you’re right. I missed the snark.
The authors should have asked an English speaker to proof read first. “Going ahead in an even pace” isn’t correct English and I don’t think it’s at all obvious without context that it is supposed to mean “Walk in a straight line”. They consistently use “in an even pace” instead of “at an even pace” in their examples.
I currently own a house. I spend a fair amount of time and money on the maintenance of that house. When I rented, my landlord spent that time and money. Now, admittedly, the (normal) money came out of my rent.. but the time sure doesn't.

And when the boiler went in the base of one of the place I rented, the landlord had to have it replaced. That type of thing, major expenses, is some of the risk that landlords take on in exchange for collecting rent. There is more risk in being a landlord than there is in owning a house, because you have to deal with all the risk of owning a house AND the risk of your tenant being a problem.
Why would you automatically think a bee spinning a ball “ It was, apparently, just for fun.”?
That's an absurd definition. It also fits the kind typical HN/high-tech mold of underappreciating most people and professions.

What makes you think think that your definition of "surrogate activity" is an interesting distinction? That only "growing your own food" is going to make people fulfilled, biologically? Is there any evidence of this? That hunter gatherers, or that farmers in history, were somehow happier?

As far as I can tell, most people throughout history worked really hard, but tried as much as they can to do anything but what they had to do to survive. Every single human culture has music, art, science, etc.
These tools to me serve about two functions: writing regular expressions (and even then I'll tell it it's wrong once or twice before attempting to check the output), and saving me keystrokes for code I already know I'll write but is easier to describe. In both cases I already know what code snippets I want mentally, and it saves me minutes at most.
Regardless, this doesn't have anything to do with data.
Thanks to you and to the Small Basic creators for this terrific looking contribution to the BASIC (and programming) world!

I think you should say it's for beginners from 6 to 106. :)

Nice that you wrote a textbook as well; $2 doesn't seem like a terrible price.

Also made it to The Register; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40251613

(I wonder... can this run on Linux like Visual Basic, or is it Windows only? Guess I might find out...)
You also have https://github.com/revoltchat, but people don't care about these alternatives, sadly.
My mum used to work catering until she retired this year and, to be honest, I don’t think the question ever crossed her mind. She’d always used gas at work and that was that.
Objectification, that's how.
Okay? What kind of range hoods were tested?

Let's sous-vide a steak for 2 hours, and then throw it in a hot pan with oil, without drying off the steak. You'll get a lot of smoke, which will probably set of any kind of ionizing smoke detector.

Whether you're cooking on gas or electric at that moment really doesn't matter.

What matters is that you have a _PROPER_ range hood. One that vents outside and one that isn't integrated into a microwave oven.

Previous comment about range hoods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161811#40163023
To be fair, I don't exactly think the mesh system was made with deformation in mind either. We kind of just hammered on rigs/skinning on top of it, then learned all the ways not to model for that workflow.

Shame that NURBS never really took off in the gaming scene. I get it from a hardware standpoint (GPUs like triangles, and we can cut quads into triangles), but NURBs solve so many problems that trianglular meshes just hack their way around.

>How do you rig an SDF for animation

I imagine with the most unholy mathematical models imaginable. Dreams did it, so it's not impossible. But the results seen definitely don't measure up to a AAA standard (at least in Dreams).
Bees are conscious because we assume they are playing and can’t imagine any other reasons on why they did what they did.
My anecdata is exactly the opposite. The only objectively bad landlord I've had was corporate. All the small ones (own only a couple properties, or even just one) have been fantastic. Except for one, that was ... useless, but not actively bad. The corporate one was awful, and I couldn't wait to move.
Who are techbros, and what do you mean by destroy?
Hey don’t generalize the entire population
I found it! Finally, after all these years, maybe 40 in all, I have the answer to the question that was posed on a t-shirt I bought years ago.

The t-shirt question simply asked "Who cares about apathy?" Yeah, I know you're all thinking - Who buys those t-shirts anyway? I do of course and finally I know, after reading the author's byline, that the answer to this question is Luke.

>Luke A man on a crusade against apathy.

The topic is also close to me as I have a bit of experience being an actual landlord. I also joined a landlord group a long time ago to get access to useful forms, to understand landlord/tenant laws in my state, and to get a feel for how to handle issues that may arise.

I didn't maintain that relationship because the site seemed dominated and poisoned by landlords who felt like slumlords in the advice they gave and the posts they made.

I have a single family property in a nice neighborhood positioned so that I can advertise to a wide range of tenants and then pick the best candidates. I do all the maintenance myself except those things that require a licensed professional and I have local contractors that I call on for those things.

For the operating forms I simply bought a couple of NOLO books and a copy of Texas real estate law and bookmarked the landlord/tenant parts for my state online so I could refer to them if I needed.

I do all the tenant screening myself and offer the neighbors and opportunity to meet prospective tenants. I originally offered the place for lease with no pets allowed. All of that changed one day when I was comparing notes about prospective tenants before offering it and the best couple needed to bring their two dogs. That caused me to put myself in their shoes and ask myself what I would do with my two dogs and a cat if I needed to find somewhere to live.

I decided that the best way to handle the pet question was to consider them as family members since that is the functional relationship that pet should have with its owner. With that in mind, I searched around and found a site to help me formulate a reasonable pet policy. I include the pets in the interview process so that I can see how they interact with the owners, I require a non-refundable pet deposit for cleaning and up-to-date vaccination records to satisfy state requirements, and I require photos from front, back and both sides so that if the pet gets loose or bites someone I can help identify it should the local animal control pick it up.

With nearly 30 years behind me as a landlord I can say that I have only had problems with two tenants. Most tenants have stayed there past the term of their original lease, some more than twice as long. I have leased to a couple of people who just needed a comfortable place to stay for a short time so we worked out a short-term lease that lasted less than 6 months before they were transferred from the area. I have a couple of former tenants who still drop by to visit when they are back in the area.

Being a landlord is not hard if you only have one property. Most people are good people.
Because it serves no purpose other than “fun” and “passing idle time”.
There's fraud and embezzlement in non-profits all the time. Just entering that in a search engine shows tons of examples: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=fraud+and+embezzlement+in+n...

When I was involved in scouts this was a thing as well; not even always due to malice, sometimes also due to incompetence and/or inattention.
Nothing prevents somebody in Europe to stay at home without significant exercising all day, especially now as a lot of jobs are work-from-home.
Sounds like it ain’t worth much at all. Wanna trade?

I got a dell media keyboard I bought at Goodwill. No lie it has a lot of pointless keys dating back to the dinosaurs and comes with extra skin cells.
You can tap Scroll Lock until ya ded.
Yes, but a primary advantage to private transportation is the ability to drive it in locations other than predefined routes in dense city centers.
Well, it should be possible to just drag and drop a file/folder
Most of the discussions around "consciousness" would be greatly improved if people avoided that vague and ill-defined term.
That’s what we think because we cannot imagine or know another reason. But we can’t be sure. I know it’s possible because that’s what humans do for fun.
Thank you. Your software has indeed a decent feature set. I will definitely try it out as soon as possible. I wish you the best of luck with the business!
Another issue is round trip efficiency. Iron-air, I believe, is somewhere at 50-60% (you lose almost half of the energy that you pump in).

While LFP and the Sodium battery mentioned in the title, is 95-97%.
And play isn't "useless". It's not surprising that a lot of play (cats and dogs pouncing on toys, puppies and kittens wrestling with each other) is obvious practice for things they do when they aren't playing.
So are people going to make t-shirts with the cryptographic keys? I.E. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
How is that obvious? I'm pretty sure that not even humans have consciousness before they have learned to speak.
Do I just need more coffee, or does that list of figures add up to more than $20k+, rather than $17k+?
This looks very sketchy. I'd recommend checking out Little Snitch instead.
this is so funny. I hadn't thought about this movie in a while. Weird how many similarities there actually are
Of course. We live in a world that wouldn’t dare to do any actions to save itself unless it’s “profitable”. This way of thinking permeates to each fiber of our social fabric.
People get distracted by fake Latin as well. An llm can do stuff like this.

The grand entrance of the fictional house opens to a spacious living room with high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows that offer a panoramic view of the lush garden. This text is fake. To the left, an open-plan kitchen features state-of-the-art appliances and a large island that doubles as a breakfast bar. This passage is a placeholder. Beyond the kitchen, there is a cozy dining area that can comfortably seat eight guests, surrounded by modern art pieces on the walls. Text generated by AI. Adjacent to the living room, a sliding glass door leads to a wooden deck with an outdoor fireplace, perfect for evening gatherings. This text is for illustrative purposes. Upstairs, the master bedroom boasts a private balcony overlooking the backyard, complete with a walk-in closet and a spa-like en suite bathroom. This description is not real. Finally, the basement has been transformed into a home theater with surround sound and plush seating, making it an ideal retreat for movie nights. This content is synthetic.
> The difficulty is that on average the people who sleep well and are physically active are also the people who eat well, have higher incomes and better access to healthcare

Truly effective causal studies are still in their infancy, relatively speaking, and are still prone to the same correlation//causation fallacies. For instance, it's no fun studying things that may be the root cause of those behaviors but is hard to quantify, like "go-getter-ness" or something similarly illegible to scientific methods. You don't really know the structure of the problem so you can't put useful priors on it and focus in toward a reasonable inference. It's much easier to run t-tests and ANOVA by writing a couple lines of R so that's where we've settled as a community.
Or we haven't bothered to investigate why they are doing it? Poets used to think birds sang because they were happy (we now know they are mostly saying "Back off; this territory is mine" and "I'm looking for a mate; would you do it with me?")
Could be worse. They could be sending in snipers to pick off protestors. https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/state-police-leader-confi...
“We don’t know, therefore consciousness” sounds an awful lot like “We don’t know, therefore God”.
Last year the California supreme court ordered them to stop construction of 1100 dormitory rooms because they insufficiently studied in their environmental impact report whether a human makes sounds. So no, in California the universities will not simply build housing.
It’s good, but the best possible outcome is still only moving bad landlords from being sociopathic, petty business people* to being people who impassionately make logical business decisions.

Personally, I think that obtaining a secure and safe place to live, and having certainty over living conditions deserves more than that. From a renters perspective it’s not a business transaction. The stakes are incredible from an emotional and quality of life perspective.

* I’ve seen enough landlord forums to conclude that there is an astonishingly high concentration of shitty people.
One of the lessons that one learns as a programmer is to be able to write code that one can later read back and understand. This includes code written by others as well as code written by oneself.

When it comes to production quality code that should capture complex and/or business-critical functionality, you do want an experienced person to have architected the solution and to have written the code and for that code to have been tested and reviewed.

The risk right now is of many IT companies trying to win bids by throwing inexperienced devs at complex problems and committing to lower prices and timelines by procuring a USD 20 per month Github Co-Pilot subscription.

You individually may enjoy being able to put together solutions as a non-programmer. Good for you. I myself recently used ChatGPT to understand how to write a web-app using Rust and I was able to get things working with some trial and error so I understand your feeling of liberation and of accomplishment.

Many of us on this discussion thread work in teams and on projects where the code is written for professional reasons and for business outcomes. The discussion is therefore focused on the reliability of and the readability of AI-assisted coding.
There are already batteries cheaper than lithium ion batteries, but they are not in low-end phones, because a low-end lithium ion phone battery is still only a few dollars.
Sun moves around Earth. This seems obvious to me and I don't understand how one can think otherwise. /s
You forgot the cost. Gas is much cheaper than electricity in most places.
The tenor of the conversation I imagine since it’s a chatbot
> It is similar to how the original iPhone and iPad are basically unusable with no connectivity in today's world

This should be unacceptable as well.
> if sodium is more common

What. Of course sodium is more common. Hundreds of times more common. You can get it from the sea, salt lakes, and salt mines. You buy it all the time in the form of table salt. It's crazy cheap by comparison to lithium, and just crazy cheap, really (though it wasn't always crazy cheap).
> It's only boring adults who do steady state cardio

That's an interesting observation, I'd never noticed that but you're right. There was always something uncanny to me about high school teams for cross-country running but I could never put my finger on it.
Reality is G7 is getting rid of coal and have carbon taxes, China and India are still building new coal.
China is already first world polluter and will be much more with new coal. There are no nuances in this.
> An included tip is called a commission.

Nope. It's called having a standard job, with standard pay. It's not sales, it's customer service. They're different things.

And the rest of the world does it fairly well, with far better outcomes than the US system.
> a reprieve from the tyranny of linters

Consistency is dramatically overrated. We all read through comment threads on HN where each is written in it's own style and nobody has a problem understanding it. I read through open source repos all the time, which all have their own styles and which are often not self-consistent; my comprehension is not impaired. I have worked with teams that enforce linting with a religious fervor and teams where anything goes. The anything goes team is probably more productive and with a comparable rate of bugs (but I don't have the metrics to prove it). Personally, I don't feel like my comprehension is better or worse in one setting or the other.

The difference I do notice is that when there are no linters, nobody wastes time trying to figure out how to work around it for a few lines. A great example is Eigen matrix initialization through the stream operator overload [1]. You really want to manually format that so each row is on it's own line. If you use clang-format in such code, it will be littered with

MatrixXf mat(2, 2);
// clang-format off
mat << 1, 2,
3, 4;
// clang-format on

which adds a ton of unnecessary noise which does impair reading.

[1] https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/group__TutorialAdvancedIniti...
Hmm your right, good catch, I'm the one who needs more of it :)

Unfortunately I cannot change the title here, but I've fixed it in the article
This housing provider myth is pretty bad. I also live in Berkeley, where I pay so much rent that my landlady covers all her expenses in 6 weeks and spend all of her time on vacation. Who is doing the providing in this scenario?
Well, that’s the result of the research. It’s a whole paper.

And, it’s not written by poets. Plus, birds doesn’t always chirp to tell you to back off or to mate. There’s a myriad of reasons.
My gym membership seems pretty reasonable, as do my Netflix subscription, and HBR subscription.
Neat idea but the musician directory seems buggy. After scrolling once through a few musicians I can’t seem to return to them. Eventually the entire list disappears and I get a “no musicians in your area” message. No documentation, user guide, or support that I could find. It would be cool to see this working or to understand how to use it… i’m an amateur musician who has thought of looking for others to jam with.
Also it's not mosquitos' fault that deadly pathogens hop on the ride.
Show HN: Ultra Fast Depth Map Generation Using Tensorrt Inside ComfyUI
Previous Discussion from 12/05/22 (95 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856942
my tool has lorem ipsum:

https://github.com/fosslife/devtools-x

it's offline and written in tauri+ rust
he said he was using electric before, so obviously it's an upgrade from that

he also completely avoids the question and implies that "those guys" (other celebrity chefs) don't use it because they don't have "fantastic kitchens" like he does
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40236699
https://archive.ph/JmVIk